. This paper argues that these inefficiencies can be avoided by asking bidders prior to the auction to submit any public … before the auction itself takes place. …

-bidders' auction is similar to the Hawk-Dove game, which motivates to study symmetric NEs: Properties and comparative statics are …

A simultaneous pooled auction with multiple bids and preference lists is a way to auction multiple objects, in which … case they have the highest bid on more than one object. This type of auction has been used in the Netherlands and in … Ireland to auction available spectrum. We show that this type of auction does not satisfy elementary desirable properties such …

, which raises efficiency and seller's revenues. Efficiency and revenues are also higher when more bidders enter the auction. …

The Babylonian bridal auction, described by Herodotus, is regarded as one of the earliest uses of an auction in history …. Yet, to our knowledge, the literature lacks a formal equilibrium analysis of this auction. We provide such an analysis for …

This paper characterizes the optimal first-price auction (FPA) and second-price auction (SPA) for selling rights …

approached about 4500 households, each participating in either an all-pay auction, a lottery, a non-anonymous voluntary … contribution mechanism (VCM), or an anonymous VCM. In contrast to the VCMs, households competed for a prize in the all-pay auction … and the lottery. Although the all-pay auction is the superior fundraising mechanism both in theory and in the laboratory …